Describe the Synchronous Optical Network standard.

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ANSWER: SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) is a high-bandwidth WAN signaling technique developed for fiber-optic cabling by Bell Communications Research in the 1980s, and later standardized by ANSI and ITU. SONET specifies framing and multiplexing techniques at the Physical layer of the OSI model. Its four key strengths are that it:
* Can integrate many other WAN technologies
* Offers fast data transfer rates
* Allows for simple link additions and removals
* Provides a high degree of fault tolerance

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